Lumen News – January 6th, 2022
Important Upcoming Dates:
Jan 7: All School Mass at 7:45am
Jan 12: Wednesday Hot Lunch (High School)
Jan 14: All School Mass at 7:45am
Jan 17: MLK Holiday (No School)
Jan 19: Wednesday Hot Lunch (Junior High)
Jan 21: All School Mass at 7:45am
Jan 26: Wednesday Hot Lunch (High School)
Jan 28: All School Mass at 7:45am
Jan 30-Feb 5: Celebrate Catholic Schools Week
Jan 31: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School “Jump Up Day”
Feb 1: Catholic Schools Week Mass at 10am @ OLG
Feb 1: SAVE THE DATE! 6th Annual State of the School Address, 7pm (gym) Feb 12: There’s No Place Like Home ~ Fundraising Gala!
Feb 16-17: P/T Conferences
Feb 18: Inservice Day (No School)
Feb 21: President’s Day Holiday (No School)
Feb 18-20: 10th Grade retreat @ St. Therese’s Camp (St. Ben’s Winter Retreat) Mar 2: Ash Wednesday Mass at 7:45am
Mar 3-5: BB Regions @ Lumen
Mar 4: Inservice (No School–start of Spring Break)
Mar 14: Return from Spring Break
Mar 16-19: BB State Championships
Principal’s Update:
Well, we are off to an interesting spring semester and 2022! We ask you to pray for all those affected by travel delays (we still have many students and families stuck around the country) as well as those impacted by this recent COVID surge (we have several students and family members recovering from illness). I appreciate everyone’s flexibility and support as we started out mask optional but quickly transitioned back to masks as the community numbers increased. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and adjust accordingly. Our primary focus is to continue to keep our doors open to in-person learning despite the challenges we face.
With the colder temperatures, I ask parents to ensure that your son or daughter is “dressed for the weather” each day. I do greet quite a few students entering the school building in the morning and walking around the school without a fleece sweater, jacket, or other warming layer. Students with exposed skin (bare legs for ladies and bare arms for all) will be extremely miserable (and maybe even become hypothermic or frostbitten) in the event of an emergency. In November 2018, following the 7.1 earthquake, we had to evacuate the building and our students stood outside for over an hour while we ensured a suitable alternate location was safe to occupy. We also run monthly fire drills or other evacuation procedures, so please make sure your son or daughter is prepared and dresses accordingly each morning.
Good luck to our Archangel basketball teams who have scrimmages against Homer and Cook Inlet Academy this Friday and Saturday!
Campus Ministry:
This month’s virtue is Prudence. Below are some helpful resources for parents looking to discuss the strength of Prudence at home: https://www.sportsleader.org/sites/default/files/newsletter-assets/Prudence%20Parent%20PDF%202.pdf
● Many thanks to our Junior Legion of Mary that meets every Monday at 1 p.m. for prayer and service. They have spent time making dozens of sandwiches for Brother Francis shelter. We have room for more members!
● Happy Birthday this weekend to Noah Tzetcoff and Isabella Surles!
● Our 10th grade retreat is February 18-20 at St. Therese Camp. Information will be sent out this week.
● St. Benedict Youth nights are Wednesdays 7-9 p.m. All are welcome!
Brother Francis Shelter is desperately in need of sandwiches. Beginning January 14th we will be making meat and cheese sandwiches each Friday from 1-2 p.m. Students are welcome to join us for an hour of service. We are requesting donations of bread, ham, turkey, and cheese slices. You can send them in throughout the week and we will refrigerate them until Friday each week. As needs arise, Catholic Social Services will contact the school and we will work on Fridays to meet them. Later requests might be for socks, gloves, or other items to make cold weather bags. We will let you know as we go. Thank you so much in advance!
- For those experiencing homelessness, hunger, and isolation especially during these temperatures
- For those in Wasilla who have suffered loss from weather
- For those in the Philippines suffering from floods and landslides
- For victims of fires in Colorado
- For and end to the pandemic
- For unity in our country
Archangel Sports:
Middle School Girls Volleyball
Middle School Volleyball practice will begin this upcoming
Monday, January 10, 2022 at the gym
from 4:15-6:00 pm
Interested players, please show up in appropriate workout attire. More information will be given at practice.
Please contact: [email protected] for any questions.
High School
Boys Basketball Scrimmage game
vs Homer Tomorrow Friday Jan. 7th at 5pm (gym)
vs Tanana Monday, Jan. 10th at 6pm (gym)
Girls Basketball
Scrimmage game vs CIA Saturday, Jan. 8th at 1pm
Rifle Program
Mr. Ross would like to continue our rifle program this spring with all “NEW SHOOTERS” (meaning those that did not shoot in the fall). Signups will start on Monday, January 10, and will be limited to 8 students total. Open to both junior high and high school students. Practices will take place during the 7th period starting Tuesday, January 18th through Thursday, April 2nd. We will be participating in the Orion 2022 National Air Rifle New Shooter League, with weekly “virtual” competitions against teams from around the nation. For more information, contact Mr. Ross at [email protected]
Front Office News:
LUMENary Drive
And that’s a WRAP! With true heartfelt thanks for the generosity of so many, we’re thrilled to announce that we met both our financial and our fingers-crossed-timeline goals for this year’s LUMENary Drive! With an as-of-today total of $76,058.00 we’re officially at 101.41% of our $75,000 goal, which last year, took us until the end of April to meet. The generosity of Lumen families and community supporters is extraordinary. Thank You!
Parent Shout Outs
A huge shout out to the Anchorage Lion’s Club and to Cathy Medland, R.N. for organizing the free Vision and Hearing checks for our students and staff this past Tuesday! We are all so thankful!
Another huge shout out to Michelle Hohmann, Sherry Strizak, Bob Gunderson and John Mitchell for their amazing HOT LUNCH teamwork last semester! Thank you for picking right back up this week and continuing hot lunch for this spring semester! You are awesome!
Remind Text Messages
Just a FYI for parents, the Remind Team has recently notified us that they will be assigning new Remind phone numbers to SMS users. Feel free to save the number when you receive our next phone text/message from us! If you have never received school text messages, please contact: [email protected] and Mrs. Guzman will add you to the list!
Lumen Legacy
27th Annual Gala Fundraiser
Invitations will be out in the mail tomorrow; donations are coming in; the bidding site will open soon and the Gala Team has some amazing and oh-so-clever things planned to help make this the best event ever! Intrigued? You should be…..stay tuned!
This week’s Lumen Legacy spotlight is on Trey Bernert (2018). Up until last semester, Trey had been attending Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, but decided that path wasn’t his path! He left NAU, is working and saving money to open his own ice cream shop “Starry Sky Creamery.” Family reports it’s been a fun change to see Trey’s inspiration, initiative and most importantly his passion for this new path. And as Trey reports “Bill Gates dropped out his first semester of junior year as well so my company will be the Microsoft of Ice Cream.”
Trey, if anyone is going to succeed at this it’s you – we’re with you 100% (and hopefully will score some free samples if we’re in AZ and pop by to visit.) Cheers to you, and thanks for checking in!
Other alumni students and families – we’d love to hear from you! Email [email protected] to tell us what you’re up to these days.
Volunteer/Parent Share Hours Opportunities
Coming Soon! Parish Ambassadors to Speak at weekend Masses on Jan 29-30th about Lumen, the Second Collection for Catholic Schools, and the Gala
No Place like Home Gala – Dessert “Dash”
Archangel Attic
Lumen News – December 2nd, 2021
Important Upcoming Dates:
Dec 4: Middle School BB Tournament @ Lumen from 9am-5pm
Dec 7: Junior High Advent Reconciliation Service (7th period) Dec 8: Feast of the Immaculate Conception Mass @ 7:45am Dec 9: High School Advent Reconciliation Service (7th period) Dec 10: 11th Grade Retreat, 1-6:30pmDec 11: Winter Formal Dance (“Snow Dance”)(JH 5:30-7pm; HS 8-10pm)
Dec 14-16: Final Exams (see schedule below for time change from Handbook) Dec 16-18: High School BB Tournament @ Lumen
Dec 17-Jan 2: Christmas Break
Jan 3: Start of Second Semester
Jan 17: MLK Holiday (No School)
Jan 30-Feb 5: Celebrate Catholic Schools Week
Feb 1: 6th Annual State of the School Address
Feb 12: Gala!
Feb 16-17: P/T Conferences
Feb 18: Inservice Day (No School)
Feb 21: President’s Day Holiday (No School)
Principal’s Update:
A couple of updates for you. First, our School Board and faculty will be reviewing the data from the recent COVID survey over the next few days. We hope to have the survey data (without comments), the Board’s summary review, and our school’s proposed plan for Spring Semester to you by mid next week. Thank you for your patience to this point as we try to ensure we have the best possible plan going forward.
Secondly, and most importantly, I want to formally announce the kick off of our high school boys and girls basketball season! Practices started yesterday and we have a record number of athletes participating–that is so awesome! We are blessed to have Mr. Adam Trombley returning to coach the boys program. Adam has been with us for five years, and during that time, he and our boys have won the Peninsula Conference regional championships in 2020 and 2021 and are the reigning 1A State champions from spring 2021! The boys are looking to defend their state title, so it promises to be an exciting season! Additionally, Mr. Tom Gregory is returning to coach the girls program and assistant coach the boys. Tom has been with us for five years as well and coached the girls to a Peninsula Conference regional championship in spring 2021! Tom and the girls team are looking forward to defending this title as well against some very competitive opponents.
During the season, which runs until mid-March, our athletes will sacrifice many hours in practice and be in our gym over Christmas and Spring Break honing their skills, developing their bodies, growing in virtue and character, and strengthening the bonds of teamwork. Our thoughts and prayers go out to them as they embark on this journey. I ask each and every family to come out and support our teams as the game schedule gets in full swing. Your first opportunity is Dec. 16-18 when we will host a tournament of teams in our gym following final exam week and the start of Christmas break. Good luck Archangels–our school is with you!
Campus Ministry:
Here are some helpful resources for parents looking to discuss the strength of HUMILITY at home:
https://www.sportsleader.org/sites/default/files/newsletter-assets/Humility%20Parent%20PDF.pdf
This first week of Advent
These weeks of Advent give us the opportunity to be still and reflect on the impact that the birth of the tiny baby Jesus has on our outlook on life. We wish you peace on your journey this Advent season.
Advent Wreath Prayers – Week 1 by Dave Frincke
Come, Lord Jesus! Come! May this Advent be a time of deep renewal in my life, dear Lord. May it be a time in which I strive with all my heart to seek out Your gentle and profound voice. Give me the grace, dear Lord, to turn away from the many noises of the world that compete for my attention and to turn only to You and to all You wish to say. Come, Lord Jesus, come into my life more deeply during this Advent season. Jesus, I trust in You.
● Junior Class retreat will begin at 1:00 p.m. Friday, December 10th. We hope all junior class families will be able to join us for dinner and prayer at 5:30.
● Students in need of service hours for the school community? Join the choir! Volunteers meet once a week (students taking choir as a class meet 4 times a week) to practice music and earn 1⁄2 hour of service each week they practice and sing at Mass with the choir.
Happy Birthday this week to Leland Hohmann, Justin Ortega, Tommy Simono, Ben Medland and Kendra Jarrett!
● We pray for peace and unity in our country
● We pray for all suffering mental, emotional, and psychological unrest, that they will be healed
● We pray for our Church and government leaders, that they will allow God to work through them
● For those who are alone, suffering homelessness, and hungry during this Thanksgiving, that God will use us to meet their needs
● For our Lumen Christi families, that they will be drawn more closely to God during this Advent Season
Archangel Sports:
Middle School Basketball Tournament
Saturday, December 4th
9 am – Boys -BCS vs Lumen
10 am – Girls – BCS vs Anchor 11 am – Boys – HRA vs Anchor 12 pm – Girls – Anchor vs Lumen 1 pm – Boys – Anchor vs Lumen 2 pm – Boys – BCS vs HRA
3 pm – girls – BCS vs Lumen
4 pm – Boys – BCS vs Anchor
5 pm – Boys – Lumen vs HRA
6 pm – Girls Championship
7 pm – Boys Championship
Front Office News:
Secret Santa
The first two are smaller, around a $5 minimum each. The third gift is larger, around a $10 minimum. Usually the third gift is given in person and the giver’s identity is revealed, but this is up to the student. We will assign givers/receivers later that week so students have time to prepare for the exchange starting the 6th.
Junior high and high school are having separate exchanges so students will more likely give to someone they are familiar with and to make it easier to secretly give them the gifts.
Final Exam Schedule
The final exam schedule in the Handbook does not correctly reflect our school starting time this year. Therefore, please use the following Final Exam schedule for Dec 14-16:
The fall exam daily schedule is:
Dec 14: Periods 1 and 2 Dec 15: Periods 3 and 4 Dec 16: Periods 5 and 6
The hourly schedule each day during finals is:
7:30-7:40am: Snack
7:40-7:45am: Pledge, Prayer, and Morning Announcements 7:45-9:15am: Final Exam
9:15-9:30am: Snack
9:30-11:00am: Final Exam
11:00am: Dismissal
At Home COVID Tests
We’ve received another shipment of at-home tests and anticipate having stock on hand for the remainder of this academic year. If at any time you would like to request some, email Anne at [email protected] or Kim at [email protected] and we’ll send’em home with your student. As a reminder, these are the “shallow depth nasal swab” types, are confidential and you are not required to report results to us, or anyone!
27th Annual Gala Fundraiser
Earlier in the week we sent out a text with a survey link – if you weren’t able to complete it then, we’d appreciate 60 seconds of your time (truly! 4 questions only!) The info will give us a better idea about family participation. Many thanks for your input: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LQW5969
Thanks to those who signed up to help with class projects, and to bring in wine! The Gala truly is a community effort and it wouldn’t be successful without everyone’s support.
Archangel Attic – BONUS Share Hours offer!
We’ve had some incredible support this month from the ‘regular’ (non Lumen family) Archangel Attic volunteers who have provided coverage for all Saturdays in December. Looking ahead to January and beyond however, we find ourselves in need of help as many of those volunteers are snowbirds and will soon be heading to warmer climes. To entice sign ups – do we have a deal for you! In between now and March 4th (the start of Spring Break):
If you sign up and complete one shift (3 hours) you’ll get a 50% bonus, so 4.5 hours total!
If you sign up and complete two shifts (6 hours) you’ll get 9 hours total – again, a 50% bonus!
If you sign up and complete three shifts (9 hours) you got it – another 50% bonus for 13.5 hour total! So click here to sign up and start rackin’ up those hours! https://signup.com/go/rKBncff
Winter Formal Dance
LCHS Winter Formal Dance will be on Saturday, December 11th at 5:30-7:00 pm for Middle School students and 8:00-10:00 pm for High School students. Students and guests are expected to wear the proper attire for this formal event. Please see Mrs. Guzman at the front desk for a copy of the Dance Dress Code and/or a guest permission slip. Guests are strictly for juniors and seniors and they are only allowed one guest per person.
Student Shout Out
We would like to give a huge shout out to 3 of our Lumen students!
Congratulations to Jack Schroder and Liam Dupras for winning 1st place in their hockey tournament over the thanksgiving weekend! In addition to that, congratulations to Carson Blackford-Esary and his teammates for placing 2nd on the Turkey Shoot Tournament! Carson was also selected Team Captain by his team. Woo Carson!
Great job boys! You boys rock!
Check out what one of our Lumen seniors made and let’s support young artists!
Frankie’s amazing work is up for sale! (see flyer below) Contact information for purchase: [email protected]
